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When large amounts of chemicals are released into the environment, the air can become toxic. Chemicals can also wash into waterways and seep into the ground, contaminating groundwater and wells.

Following the February 2023 train derailment in Ohio, the authors conducted a rapid response to understand the chemical identity, fate, and exposure pathways after the evacuation order was lifted.

This interactive map allows people to see what facilities dealing with substances hazardous to public health are in the path of the storm," said CFAR co-director Dominic Boyer, a professor of anthropology at Rice.

These proceedings are the outcome of the 61st ESReDA seminar "Technological Disruptions Triggered by Natural Events: Identification, Characterization, and Management" that took place at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 22-23 September 2022.

More than 100,000 oil and gas wells across the western U.S. are in areas burned by wildfires in recent decades, and some 3 million people live next to wells that in the future could be in the path of fires worsened by climate change.

The Gender Action Plan to support implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai GAP) has been launched on 18 March 2024.

As climate change increases the frequency or intensity of extreme events such as wildfires, there is an increase in the potential for different types of risks to coincide or for a climate-related event to trigger a cascade of non-climatic consequences.

Jean C. Pfau, Scientific Consultant at the Center for Asbestos Related Disease, shares the devasting story of asbestos exposure occurring in a Rocky Mountain town of Montana and the critical lessons that can be learned from this event.